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Accenture

Accenture Intelligent Enterprise Platform aims to help companies transform into intelligent enterprises by leveraging insights for better business decisions. The platform intends to enable collaboration along the entire enterprise transformation process through a guided approach that uses design thinking to spot business problems, intelligent tools to assess the current IT environment, and automation to quickly develop a tailored business case, roadmap, and solution.

VMware Unveils Plans for Virtual Cloud Network

VMware

With its new Virtual Cloud Network, VMware hopes to link applications, data, and users across a secure, global, digital business network. Virtual Cloud Network is intended to optimize and secure the delivery of applications and data, no matter where they are located, through an end-to-end network architecture. Leveraging cutting-edge technology, Virtual Cloud Network aims to get the most out of networking and help organizations transition to digital businesses.

SUSE

Based on OpenStack Pike, SUSE OpenStack Cloud 8 was recently released with the goal of speeding the deployment of software-defined infrastructure and enable IT transformation. With greater interoperability, scalability, and flexibility, the solution aims to help customers meet business objectives while also reducing costs. The solution features several enhancements over its predecessors, including a pre-integrated and scalable monitoring tool that is designed to simplify the management of SUSE OpenStack Cloud environments.

Cisco to Acquire Business Intelligence Startup Accompany

Cisco

Cisco recently announced plans to acquire Accompany, a startup that helps businesses strengthen relationships with an artificial intelligence (AI) platform that features real-time profiles of important business leaders. Cisco plans to leverage Accompany’s relationship intelligence technology to extend its own portfolio of collaboration solutions — by including user and company profile data in WebEx meetings, for example — and enable organizations to collaborate intelligently with their employees, partners, and customers.

Hitachi Vantara Adds New Machine Learning Capabilities to Its Portfolio

Hitachi Vantara

Hitachi Vantara has introduced a new set of tools — known as machine learning model management — with the aim of helping businesses improve their machine learning deployments. These tools are intended to reduce the manual effort associated with monitoring, testing, retraining, and redeploying predictive models in response to change. By making it easier to refresh models regularly, Hitachi Vantara hopes to help organizations increase prediction accuracy, reduce risks, and gain insights that enable better business decisions.